Yofi Tirosh

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Yofi Tirosh is an Associate Professor at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, a Senior Research Fellow at Jerusalem’s Hartman Institute, and a nationally recognized and award-winning civil rights activist. Tirosh earned her LL.B. at the Hebrew University of Virginia. After clerking for Israel’s Supreme Court, she completed her LL.M. and SJD at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor.

Her academic articles on anti discrimination law and law and culture were published in leading journals in Israel and abroad, and she has taught and served as a visiting faculty in leading institutions, including New York University, Georgetown Law School, and Humboldt University.

Her book, Separate and Unequal: Gender Segregation in Israel (Hebrew) has just been published. You can read selected academic papers at ssrn.com.

Articles by this author:

A woman cleans the memorial of a victim at the site of the Nova Festival to mark the 2nd anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks on October 07, 2025 in Re'im, Israel. Various commemorations are taking place around Israel to mark the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks in Israel and the Gaza border area on October 7, 2023. During the attacks, 251 hostages were taken and around 1,200 people were killed, making it the deadliest attack in Israel's history. In response to the attacks, Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza, which has so far killed more than 67,000 people and displaced around 90% of the enclave's population of 2.1 million. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

When Sexism Endangers Lives: In Israel, Sidelining Women Comes at the Cost of Security

Oct. 23, 2025 Yofi Tirosh